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A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$16.95 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by WOOLF VIRGINIA
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, 'A Room of One's Own' inter ...Show more
Chance - A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A remarkable book, the story of Flora De Barral, daughter of the Great De Barral, a monumental swindler, and her love for the sea captain who married her. Marlow tells the story in his usual quiet manner which is so dramatic under the quiet, and shows Chance the master hand directing and interfering at ...Show more
Daisy Miller and Other Stories by Henry James; Jean Gooder (Editor)
$18.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succès de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora, ' 'The Patagonia, ' and 'Four Meetings'-- it describes a confrontation between different ...Show more
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant; Christopher Bennett (Translator); Joe Saunders (Translator); Robert Stern (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. This new edition and translation of Kant's work is designed especia ...Show more
Idylls by Theocritus; Anthony Verity (Translator); Richard Hunter (Introduction by)
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and love are the foundational poems ofthe wester ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
$23.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and div ...Show more
OEDIPUS THE KING AND OTHER TRAGEDIES OEDIPUS THE KING AIAS PHILOCTETES OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by SOPHOCLES
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at ColonusSophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. In these four tragedies he portrays the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Christina Lupton; James Kinsley (Editor)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadFew have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now r ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Stephen Orgel (Editor)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
...It was annoying that the box which was thus attracting the undivided attention of masculine New York should be that in which his betrothed was seated between her mother and aunt; and for a moment he could not identify the lady in the Empire dress, nor imagine why her presence created such excitement ...Show more
The Lusíads by Luis Vaz de Camões; Landeg White (Edited and Translated by)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
1998 is the quincentenary of Vasca da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original encount ...Show more